חָרִיף
Hariph
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Hariph’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2756 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Hariph” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name חריף (Chârîyph). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Nehemiah. First canonically at Nehemiah 7:24, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2756 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hariph 2×
- American Standard Version: Hariph 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hariph 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hariph 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2756 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2756 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2756 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2756 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. חָרִף head of a family of returned exiles Ne 7:24 (𝔊 Αρειφ, 𝔊L Ιωρηε) = יוֹרָה (cf. יוֹרֶה early rain) Ezr 2:18 (𝔊 Ουρα, A Ιωρα, 𝔊L Ωραι). e.g. Nehemiah 7:23
- 2. חָרִיף one of those sealed Ne 10:20 𝔊 Αρειφ(α), 𝔊L Αρηφ. e.g. Nehemiah 10:20
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (cf. Arabic خَرِيفٌ autumn, v. חֹרֶף supr.)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חרף (châraph) (H2778) — to reproach.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲרִיף
- (v. חָרַף) to be quick, acute. Ḥull. 110ᵇ חֲרִיפַת טובא thou art quick of perception.
חָרִיף
- (preced.)
- 1. quick, sharp; pungent; acute. Targ. Ps. LII, 4. Targ. Is. VII, 20; a. fr.—Hor. 14ᵃ ח׳ ומקשה is acute and inclined to raise questions. Nidd. 45ᵇ דח׳ טפי that she is very bright (for her age). B. Bath. 111ᵇ, a. e. סכינא ח׳ דמפסקא וכ׳ a sharp knife which cuts verses apart (interpreting without regard to syntax). Ḥull. 77ᵃ דח׳ סכיניה whose knife is sharp (who reasons well); Yeb. 122ᵃ דחריף סכינא. Meg. 7ᵃ, a. e. (prov.) טבא חדא פילפלתא ח׳ וכ׳ one grain of pepper is worth more than a basketful of pumpkins, i.e. a reasoning mind is worth more than learning. Ned. 31ᵇ top זבינא ח׳ goods which sell quickly, v. מִיצְעָא; a. fr.—Pl. חֲרִיפִין, חֲרִיפֵי. Targ. Josh. V, 2. Targ. Hab. I, 8.—Ber. 59ᵇ האי דח׳ בני וכ׳ the reason that the men of Maḥuza are acute. Kidd. 39ᵃ, a. e. ח׳ דפומבדיתא the ingenious students of Pumb’ditha (Efa and Abimi); a. e. e.g. Habakkuk 1:8
- 2. current coin, easily passing. B. Mets. 44ᵃ sq. כספא דח׳ silver coin which is current, is considered coin, gold being less current is considered a produce.—Pl. חֲרִיפֵי. Ib. ח׳ טפי וכ׳ are easier passed than &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2756 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָרִ֔יף | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 7:24 | 1 |
| חָרִ֥יף | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2756, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hariph). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Autumnal rain. (1.) Neh. 7:24. (2.) 10:19.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a plucking-off). A hundred and twelve of the Bene-Hariph returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:24) The name occurs again among the "heads of the people" who sealed the covenant. ch. (Nehemiah 10:19)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
